VBScript Jobs

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring VBScript skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VBScript over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 734 846 784
Rank change year-on-year +112 -62 +321
Permanent jobs citing VBScript 6 68 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.064% 0.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.036% 0.20% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 5 51 82
10th Percentile £35,800 £34,000 £32,600
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £51,750
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +1.45% +3.50%
75th Percentile £48,750 £59,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £54,000 - £74,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,250 £52,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year -21.43% +14.13% -1.08%

All Programming Languages
UK

VBScript falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 16,884 33,730 36,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.37% 31.56% 41.39%
Number of salaries quoted 10,803 24,985 25,806
10th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

VBScript
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VBScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VBScript.

Salary trend for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VBScript over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Salary histogram for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VBScript within the UK over the 6 months to 5 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +93 6 £45,000 -14.29% 38
UK excluding London +111 5 £41,250 -21.43% 24
North of England +21 3 £46,250 -7.50% 1
Work from Home +70 2 £41,750 -22.69% 14
North West -9 2 £47,500 -9.52%
London +97 1 £55,000 -21.43% 15
South West +97 1 - - 2
North East +45 1 £45,000 +20.00%
East of England +38 1 £36,000 - 1
South East +36 1 £37,500 -36.44% 16

VBScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) Asana
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) DNS
2 3 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) DHCP
3 2 (33.33%) Internet
3 2 (33.33%) LAN
3 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (33.33%) VLAN
4 1 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (16.67%) iSCSI
4 1 (16.67%) Network Security
4 1 (16.67%) SAN
4 1 (16.67%) VoIP
4 1 (16.67%) WAN
4 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Wintel Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Wintel Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) HTML
1 2 (33.33%) WSH
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (16.67%) Classic ASP
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) Kendo UI
2 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (16.67%) CCTV
2 1 (16.67%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
4 1 (16.67%) Android
4 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
4 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) CRM
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) ITSM
3 1 (16.67%) Line Management
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Security Management
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) VB.NET
3 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (16.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) MCSA
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) MCITP
3 1 (16.67%) MCP
3 1 (16.67%) MCSE
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) BitLocker
3 1 (16.67%) Firmware
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (16.67%) Backup Exec
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Apple
3 1 (16.67%) Datto
3 1 (16.67%) Draytek
3 1 (16.67%) EMC
3 1 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (16.67%) McAfee
3 1 (16.67%) Meraki
3 1 (16.67%) Mitel
3 1 (16.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (16.67%) Sophos
3 1 (16.67%) Symantec
3 1 (16.67%) Telerik